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  • Vertical Urbanism

    This was originally posted on my blog http://pradx.posterous.com on December 25, 2011. Found this post on the Wayback Machine.

    For the last few days, I have been hunting for two things – various clubs/hang outs/societies related to Geography and how I can become a professional geographer. In my search, I found out this beauty of a website that speaks about the geography of flyovers and walkways of Mumbai. The website is an effort to document these features by Andrew Harris of the Urban Labs at the University College London.

    It contains lots of photographs and sound recordings from various parts of the city.

  • Hello World!

    This was originally posted on https://pradx.posterous.com on 24 December, 2011. Found again using the Wayback Machine.

    Last week, I re-discovered my love for geography. Here are my evolving 
    thoughts and how I hope to move from the pursuit of geography from my 
    background in mechanical engineering.

  • Getting off Twitter

    Since June I’ve been reviewing my usage of the Internet and it’s
    impact on my offline life. I’ve been collecting raw numbers. In the
    past week I crunched the data.

    I spend nearly Rs. 300 per week on accessing the Net. Most of this is
    used on Twitter and Gmail. I saw that I was spending 6 hrs/day despite
    reducing my usage on Twitter. Doing it less often is an option but I
    generally miss out on the fun. I specifically took a higher cost Net
    connection to force me to use it less.

    Even if I can absorb the cost I spend the time I spend here was coming
    from time alloted for reading, listening to songs, working on
    projects, thinking new project ideas etc.

    I’ll keep my friendfeed a/c up and update all the various services. I
    think I’ll be more useful that way.

  • Water

    My fascination for water started with the lines in my science text
    book urging me to drink 8 to 13 glasses of water everyday. I follow
    this naturally because I do get thirsty alot.

    Fast forward to my under graduate years and it amazes me that we still
    use the same 100 odd year old system to bring water from catchment
    areas to meet requirements of the city. Innovation has worked only in
    bringing water more efficiently in the old system.

    Today, we face a water shortage. Would not people staying closer to
    the water source claim ownership and sell water to her neighbours than
    allow its citizens to die?

    An analogy is supplying water to a colony on the Moon.

  • Hello World!

    I find that I blog little and little and so this sounded something worth looking at. This is my first test post. You can follow the updates on http://pradx.posterous.com. Thanks.